METAPSYCHOSIS
Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art
Attention!
Poets, thinkers, artists, mystics, misfits, and activists in all literary genres, academic disciplines, and unschools of thought.
…and interested readers…
Metapsychosis is a literary project of transdisciplinary spirit, hereby inviting artists, writers, scholars, mystics, and consciousness explorers to participate in a co-creative experiment and collaborative publishing venture grounded in the experience of transmission between minds.
Call it Distributed Intelligence. Network Consciousness. The Noosphere...or Depthosphere. A planetary ecosystem of thought. Mutational in meaning, we intend Metapsychosis to be a vehicle for exploring, attuning, amplifying, intensifying, and multiplying our powers of intellectual inquiry and creative transmission within this incipient cultural sphere.
Inspired by the comingling network of movements loosely titled “visionary culture”—and dialed in to multiple currents of metatheory, literary and science fiction, critical theory, pop culture, consciousness and religious studies, and evolutionary activism—we seek to engage the transpersonal and the spiritual through artistic experimentation and practice.
Building on a history of experimental publishing that has, traditionally, blended disciplines and genres—such as the zine BoingBoing, Mondo 2000, Gnosis Magazine, OMNI, Beams and Struts, and Reality Sandwich—we seek to create a meeting of minds in a collaborative act of culture-creation.
Metapsychosis aims to express the emergent complexity of planetary culture through the medium of literature and the arts, spiritual inquiry, and cultural engagement. We intend to reflect a multitude of diverse voices, perspectives, and articulations of our intimate present—and planetary future.
Metapsychosis | Transmission Between Minds
The word “meta” is associated today with “big-picture” thinking, or having to do with overarching and transcendental matters. We refer instead to the word’s etymological roots, which have more to do with the preposition “in the midst of,” or “together with,” but also “behind” or “after.” We believe meta thinking is the kind of complex thinking—and being, and enacting—indicative of our increasingly complex and interconnected lifeworld.
Meta also denotes something that has been altered, changed.
Similarly, “psychosis” has its roots in the word psyche, or soul, and the in the original Greek, it denoted a “giving of life,” “animation,” and even a “principle of life.”
Our journal, Metapsychosis, anticipates future transformations latent in our present moment, articulates the movements of psyche—behind, after, and in the midst of—as it looks to the future of a radically integrating planetary culture.
We encourage interdisciplinary writing. When scholarly, it should be in the spirit of the public intellectual (via Ralph Waldo Emerson, Umberto Eco and Susan Sontag). It should possess something of a “negative capability” (via John Keats), or an “antifragility” (Nassim Taleb). Most of all, writers should have the capacity not only to tolerate but to thrive on diverse points of view and modes of expression.
Metapsychosis is seeking submissions in creative fiction or nonfiction, personal and critical essays, poetry and short stories, comics, film and music, performance media, film and book reviews, interviews, biographies and opinion pieces. Presently we are limiting our submissions to these genres:
- Articles and essays no more than 2,500 words in length
- Thoughtful, non-academic longform (don't send us your academic submissions...yet)
- Poetry
- Fiction and narrative non-fiction should be anywhere up to 10,000 words
Topics we are looking for include, but are not limited to: interdisciplinary scholarship; literary fiction; consciousness studies; critical theory; transpersonal psychology and the transpersonal in literature; integral theory, critical realism, and other meta-theories; folklore and mythology; climate change and the Anthropocene in literature and culture; interstitial fiction; slipstream fiction; weird lit; science fiction and fantasy; comic books and pop culture; civil rights and liberties; global/local liberation movements; contemplative writing; yoga and meditation; visionary culture; modern religious movements; occulture and esotericism; cosmology, deep ecology; psychotherapy; depth psychology; indigenous spirituality; psychedelic studies; liberation theology; feminism; gender studies; queer theory; big history; avant-garde film; zombies; etc….
Intrigued writers, editors, and artists are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. We’re eager to hear from you.
To publish with us, first consider joining us on our community platform, Infinite Conversations, and sharing your submission ideas there. This is a great way for us to get to know you, and for you to get to know our fellow writers and artists.
However, we also accept unsolicited submissions via the form below.
genii loci | masthead
mutation engineer: Jeremy D. Johnson {editor-in-chief}
shadow government (aka deep state): Marco V Morelli {artistic director}
lvr: Oliver Constantine Rabinovitch {media curator}
distributed intelligence {contributing editors}:
Coming soon...
Metapsychosis is a project of A Theory of Everybody: a platform for social poetics & planetary thought. We are an open-source cooperative of writers, readers, artists, thinkers, activists, and other misfits dedicated to exploring the question: How can art reimagine the world? Learn more »